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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

Upton Sinclair

Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
UPTON SINCLAIR

Blame Evil Honesty Media Myself
An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Book History Oneself Word
Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
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Business Discover Money Pieces
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Himself Man Strange
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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Power Vision
If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Greatness Money Sun
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Desire Fate Kind Life Men Philosophy Prison
I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Body Existence Goodness Gratitude Health Human Joy Myself Perfection Potential
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Exception Tools Use Work
But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Country Faith Liberty Myself Ourselves Religious Suffering
It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Change Music Place Room Sky Wonderful
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Mental Person Sick Society Voice
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Death Injustice Nation Politics
The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art’s sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore – and then there will be time enough for art.
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Art Enough Himself Purpose Thinking Time Writing
You don’t have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn’t like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I’ve been trying to change it ever since.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Change Country Satisfaction Yourself
I don’t know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- ‘social justice.’ For that is what I have believed in and fought for.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Believe Care Fight Heart Justice Myself Word

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